Wednesday, August 04, 2010

I fell in love with these earrings the moment Shauna showed them to me this past weekend! They are so shiny and the free-moving flowers add just the right bit of color and contrast - so perfect with the vine swirling in the background. What a wonderful pair to add to your collection!

Each earring features three free-spinning flowers made by hand of copper, bronze and fine silver. The background disks with vines and leaves are also made of fine silver. All components of these sweet earrings are oxidized to highlight the relief. The disks measure about 1-1/4 inches in diameter; height of earrings (from the top of earwire to bottom of earring) is 1-3/4 inches. Designed and made by Shauna.

Welcome to the Alone Star Jewelry Blog!

Alone Star Jewelry is just another native Texan created by sisters Lisa Kirkeby and Shauna Sopel, born and bred in the state with the greatest shape in the union. Originally from Mansfield, our family moved down to Austin in 1966 and remained in central Texas for a couple of decades. Since then we have collectively lived and traveled in other parts of the state including the east Texas piney woods, the desert and mountain regions out west, down in the valley and across the coastal plains, and it’s from all these beautiful slices of our state that inspiration is born for many of the jewelry pieces. Both of us have families, jobs, homes, lots of fun and a big creative spirit that we aspire to reflect in each piece of jewelry. God bless Texas!